Auscultation Skills: Mastering Breath and Heart Sounds for Accurate Diagnosis

Enhance your auscultation technique with Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition. As a comprehensive guide for practitioners and students, this book provides a clear understanding of breath and heart sounds, enabling you to perfect your diagnostic skills.

Unparalleled Clarity in Auscultation

This Fifth Edition Offers:

• Clear explanations and colorful illustrations to simplify complex concepts
• Linked online audio cues for a more immersive learning experience
• Coverage of heart and breath sounds from basic to advanced, including abnormal sounds

Improve Your Diagnostic Abilities

This compact, practical book will help you:

• Master the identification of heart and breath sounds
• Enhance your understanding of their physiology and anatomical correlations
• Accurately interpret what you hear and apply it towards a proper diagnosis and treatment regimen

A Comprehensive Resource for Healthcare Professionals

Auscultation Skills: Breath & Heart Sounds, Fifth Edition is an invaluable resource for:

• Nursing students and practitioners seeking to refine their auscultation skills
• Nurse practitioners and physician assistants looking to improve their diagnostic accuracy
• Healthcare professionals seeking a solid foundation in recognizing and differentiating abnormal breath and heart sounds

By referencing corresponding tracks on the accompanying website, you’ll be able to listen to the sounds immediately after reading about the anatomical and physiologic changes associated with them.

Publisher: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; Fifth edition (November 11, 2013) Language: English ISBN-10: 1451189990 ISBN-13: 978-1451189995 eText ISBN: 9781469847184